Place and Presence, Holy Hills and Sacred Cities James Patrick - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 In classical times, the city was a sacred place, bounded by a wall, in which civilization occurred, and to live outside the city was to be uncivilized. Read More
The Best Revenge With Darkness All Around Mary Kohler - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 As I drove into town after supper on Sunday evening, the all-too-familiar boom, boom of some young man’s car stereo assaulted me. Otherwise, it was a lovely fall evening, just dark. Read More
REVIEWS Sociology of the Gods Massimo Introvigne - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 Rodney Stark is considered by many to be the greatest living sociologist of religion. Generations of English-speaking students have used his textbook Sociology, now in its eighth edition. Read More
REVIEWS Naked in the Public Square Michael Orsi - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 The recent battle over the removal of a 5,280-pound monument to the Ten Commandments placed in the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court by Chief Justice Roy Moore has deep religious and civil roots stemming from the Protestant Reformation and... Read More
Perspective Rockford and Gomorrah Thomas Fleming - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 American cities rot from the center like an old oak tree: Empty and desolate within, they are kept from dying only by the life that surges just beneath the surface of the peripheral bark. Read More
Sins of Omission California’s Mythologized Bandido Roger McGrath - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 On the wintry morning of February 20, 1853, more than a hundred Chinese miners were working their claims near Rich Gulch. Without warning, five mounted and gun-brandishing bandidos swept down upon the Chinese. Read More
VIEWS Sex in the Suburbs E. Michael Jones - NOVEMBER 03, 2003 At the end of Hollywood’s remake of The Scarlet Letter, Demi Moore, playing Hester, rides out of town with Dimmesdale to start their new life together as happy adulterers in the Carolinas. Read More